Word: skeletons
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...could hope to overcome its intense and ancient gloom. Its other limitations, such as the absence of a curtain and the lack of opportunity for an imaginative set designer to cut loose, have also contributed to the selection of the plays, none of which requires more than a suggestive skeleton of scenery...
...baize table. To the impious tango rhythms of two pianos in the pit, the diplomats on stage wrangled and jumped on the table, their arguments increasing in fury until one of the peacemakers fired a toy pistol. That brought war-in which death was represented by a goose-stepping skeleton-into the scene. When all who accompanied Death-soldiers in battle and women at home-were dead, the false-faced peacemakers gathered again at their green table and waved their arms and fought, as foolishly as before...
Marching out of Princeton came three British regiments of foot, gleaming in scarlet and gold. These were no mercenaries, like the Hessians beaten at Trenton; these were seasoned and loyal troops. From a striking force of perhaps 2,500 men, Washington detached a skeleton brigade led by General Hugh Mercer to destroy the bridge over Stony Brook. But it was too late. The British regulars shattered and scattered the raw American irregulars, gave Mercer a fatal wound. His panicked men infected Washington's main body...
...Staters take their politics the way they take their beans. The old-fashioned way is best, and that proposition is one that candidates never argue. Massachusetts' constitution dates back 150 years, has been reworked by several conventions, and now carries over seventy amendments on the original skeleton. The state is not a state at all, but a "Commonwealth," and the Legislature officially is the "General Court...
...wrote the emotional, pacifist World Peaceways ads (without pay) which appeared in U.S. magazines during the 1930s. (Most striking: a steel-helmeted skeleton, captioned "Cornfed Kid from the West...